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| Florida Revisited: US midterm elections 2002 |
| HITS: 223 | 29-11-2002, 09:49 | Comments: (0) | Categories: United States , Elections, Analyzing | |
The election seemed at best sloppy, so much so that even elections BHHRG has monitored in “pariah” states of the ex-Communist bloc compared favorably in terms of cleanliness and order. Furthermore, turnout by BHHRG’s observation was lower than reported. Even if the large figures for early voting in some south Florida regions were correct (approx. 25% for Miami-Dade County, 20% for Broward County), the stream of voters going to the polls on polling day itself never appeared to exceed a trickle. As already noted, at one polling station, BHHRG waited almost twenty minutes for a voter to even show up. A report from The Miami Herald on Nov. 6th claims that Broward County’s initially reported turnout figure had to be “corrected” from 35% to 45% after it was discovered that the new voting machines had made an error – 104,000 ‘missing’ votes suddenly appeared. But from what BHHRG could see, the 35% figure was closer to reality. |
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